Free guide · No cost, no call
Save yourself months of guesswork — and see your family’s real chances before you commit to anything.
29 pages our case managers send families before they fly: what the process asks of you, what it costs in time and money, and how to walk into every office already knowing the answer.
One email address is all we need. We won’t phone you unless you ask us to.
WRAI · Private Office
What is important to know before arriving in Israel
A practical guide for families completing the process
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Exactly which papers to carry with you — and which certificate is void in Israel without an apostille.
How much cash you can bring per person, and what customs will take off you at the border.
Which way of arriving gets you out of the airport in 40 minutes instead of seven hours.
What the trip costs in shekels, fee by fee, so you can budget it before you book a flight.
Which documents you receive on arrival, and what each one lets you actually do.
How to open an Israeli bank account that really opens — and the chequebook nobody offers you.
How to keep driving on your own licence, with no Israeli driving test to sit.
How to keep Israeli healthcare available to you even if you don’t live in Israel.
If you decide to go ahead
6–7 months
From your first document to an Israeli passport in your hand. Four months on a clean case.
4–7 days
All the time you spend in Israel, in one trip — instead of the six months of residency the state expects.
99%
Of prepared families pass the consular interview. You walk in already knowing every question.
Clause 6.8
If the case fails, your money comes back. Written into the contract you read before signing.
One manager
You explain your family once. The same person stays with you from the first document to the passport.
160+
Countries you can enter without a visa once the passport is yours.
The PDF arrives within five minutes. The two questions about your family let us send you the notes that fit your case — a file that rests on a great-grandparent is not the same as one that rests on a parent.
Yes. It is the same briefing our case managers send families before they fly, and it costs you nothing and commits you to nothing. If you never speak to us, the guide is still yours.
Yes — this is the question we are asked most. Everyone who completes the process spends roughly a week in the country: the airport, the Ministry of the Interior, a bank, the health fund. That week is what the guide prepares you for, and how to keep your Israeli healthcare afterwards is in there too.
Only if you ask. Leave the phone field empty and we stay on email. When you do want to talk, ask at any point — or start with the eligibility check, which takes a few minutes and needs no conversation at all.
No. Every office visit is handled with you by a WRAI staff member, and at the bank you are introduced to an English-speaking banker.